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  2. English and Foreign Extracts.

    The Prince of Wales arrived at Portsmouth in the Serapis yesterday afternoon, on his homeward journey from India. The Admiralty yacht Enchautress, with the Princess of Wales, the Royal ...

    Article : 209 words
  3. THE SAMOAN AFFAIR.

    The Alta California thinks that the United States should go to war wich Great Britain on account of the expulsion of the adventurer Steinberger from Samoa. The senior proprietor of that ...

    Article : 65 words
  4. CRIME IN SPAIN.

    An occasional correspondent of the Times writes from Cadiz:— The crime committed in Spain is the crime natural to a population without religion, ...

    Article : 1,456 words
  5. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY-BOAT CLUBS TO BE REPRESENTED AT PHILADELPHIA.

    London, May 6.—The Rowing and Boat Clubs of the Dublin University have organised a joint representative crew of four, to take part in the contests of Philadelphia, consisting of Bentland and ...

    Article : 92 words
  6. DARING BURGLARY.

    A daring burglary, attempted in the house of General von Langenau, Austro-Hungarian ambassador at St. Petersburg, and which is stated to have exposed Madame de Langenau to no little danger, ...

    Article : 253 words
  7. FEARFUL ATROCITY.—A MAN BURNED AT THE STAKE.

    J. M, Baker, a young farmer of Bell County, Texas, was recently murdered by Tom Williams, a negro desperado, who was duly arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to be hung the following ...

    Article : 305 words
  8. MURDERED IN THE WOODS.

    Quebec, May 2.—Intelligence has reached here from Chicoutimi to the effect that during the past winter three men left there on a hunting excursion to the neighbourhood of lake Misstassini. Since ...

    Article : 346 words
  9. SHOOTING MILITARY HOUSEBREAKERS.

    Two soldiers of the 29th Regiment have been shot in Jersey while attempting to break,into a public-house. They demanded to be,served with drink after closing hours, and refused to leave. On ...

    Article : 83 words
  10. FRAUD BY A CLERGYMAN'S SON.

    At Warwick, on April 5, John Victor Scholefield, son of the rector of West Newton, a young man of twenty-six, a graduate at one of the Universities, was charged with obtaining from a Rugby ...

    Article : 112 words
  11. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION IN JERSEY CITY.

    New York, May 6.—The magazine of the Delaware, Lackawanua and Great Wostern Railroad in. Jersey City exploded to-night with terrific force. A great quantity of giant powder and glycerine ...

    Article : 80 words
  12. SPECULATIONS AS TO THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY.

    Boston, May 6.—An interview reports Charles Francia Adams as declaring that he has no itching for the Presidency, that it is a thankless office at best, that whoover has it now must expect a hard ...

    Article : 320 words
  13. CRIMINAL PRECOCITY.

    A singular instance of criminal precocity in juveniles has come before the Warrington magistrates. A girl, only eleven years old, was charged withstealing6s.from the person of a woman A bagcontaiuing ...

    Article : 101 words
  14. OIL TANK STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

    Parker's Landing, Pa., April 12.—This forenoon a 12,000 barrel oil tank belonging to Grandin and Neyhart, situated at Bear Creek station, Alleghany Vallev Railway, was struck by lightning, bursting ...

    Article : 107 words
  15. GALLANT RESCUE.

    We learn from the Falkland Islands that when H.M.S. Challenger was at anchor in the harbour of Stanley on the night of January 31, a gallant attempt was made to rescue a drowing sailor. It ...

    Article : 157 words
  16. A WHOLE FAMILY DROWNED.

    A Port Jervis dispatch announces the drowning yestorday of a whole family, consisting of Orsin Boyd, his wife, and two children, at Fisher's Eddy, on the east branch of the Delaware River, near ...

    Article : 75 words
  17. TRADES' UNION OUTRAGES IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

    The Bolton Murder.—Nothing further has transpired with reference to the Bolton murder, except the arrest of another man, named Edward Birch, formerly in the employ of Messrs. Buck and Son, ...

    Article : 592 words
  18. ROBBERY AND ARSON BY A LADY'S MAID.

    At Shrewsbury, before Baron Amphlott, Jane Kingsland, a lady's maid, was tried on charges of having stolen certain articles of dress belonging to her mistress, Mrs. Sitwoll, of Ferney Hall, and also ...

    Article : 248 words
  19. HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND MURDER IN CALIFORNIA.

    Ureka, May 6.—The mail carrior from Trinadad, arriving at Sawyer's Bar, in this county, reports that Colonel Wingard, United States Paymaster, his clerk, and a man named Baird, were attacked ...

    Article : 153 words
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